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SYLVA OF THE UNITED STATES. 
West Wall. — A nearly complete collection of the Leaves, 
Fruits, and Woods of the trees of our country, accompanied by 
graphic maps showing the distribution of each species. This fine 
collection is arranged systematically, and affords an excellent op- 
portunity for comparison between allied woods. The richness of 
our sylva in oaks and conifers is strikingly exemplified. 
Cases 74 to 78A.— A set of twenty monographs of North 
American trees. Each species in this set is illustrated by a large 
distribution map ; photo-micrographs of three sections of the wood, 
horizontal, tangential, and radial ; a branch in full leaf and fruit ; 
macroscopic sections of the wood in three planes, and a section of 
trunk showing the bark. 
Standards 79 and 79A.— Specimens of pine, showing the 
method of tapping for turpentine. 
Case 80. — Indurated fiber ware. Examples, crude and fin- 
ished, of the method of converting spruce wood into various house- 
hold articles. 
GALLERIES OF THE EAST COURT. 
These galleries, now temporarily occupied by a miscellaneous 
collection in forestry, and a portion of the anthropological collection, 
are reserved for a complete forestry and economic plant collection 
of North America, to be specially made by this department. The 
various home forestry collections exhibited at the Exposition that 
were obtainable by the Museum were mostly of a more or less heter- 
ogeneous character as to shape and size, and of an ephemeral 
nature, as they were gathered while the sap was in the pores of the 
wood, and had commenced to decay in large part before the end of 
the Fair. For these reasons a few especially fine or rare specimens 
only were retained, which will be found upon the platforms along 
the North wall. 
Case 81. — Paper pulp. Crude and partially manufactured 
specimens, showing the utilization of spruce wood, in the manu- 
facture of all grades of paper. 
Cases 81 and 83 and Walls. — Timber tests. Standards 
representing the results of strain upon various species of Ameri- 
can timbers. 
